Landform Building Cover

Stan Allen and Marc McQuade (eds.)

Landform Building

Architecture's New Terrain

In contemporary architecture, “landform building” is much more than just a formal strategy. New technologies, new design techniques, and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a rethinking of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice – not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies, and technical problems within architecture. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and documents current projects with illustrations and maps. It presents work by Iñaki Ábalos, Tacita Dean, Steven Holl Architects, Junya Ishigami, Toyo Ito, Tsunehisa Kimura, Atelier Peter Kis, Mansilla+Tuñón, Michael Maltzan, Adam Maloof+Situ Studio, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Walter Niedermayr, Ryue Nishizawa, Dominique Perrault, Philippe Rahm, and Chris Taylor. Essays by experts complete this work of reference.

In contemporary architecture, “landform building” is much more than just a formal strategy. New technologies, new design techniques, and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a rethinking of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice – not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies, and technical problems within architecture. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and documents current projects with illustrations and maps. It presents work by Iñaki Ábalos, Tacita Dean, Steven Holl Architects, Junya Ishigami, Toyo Ito, Tsunehisa Kimura, Atelier Peter Kis, Mansilla+Tuñón, Michael Maltzan, Adam Maloof+Situ Studio, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Walter Niedermayr, Ryue Nishizawa, Dominique Perrault, Philippe Rahm, and Chris Taylor. Essays by experts complete this work of reference.

Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade in cooperation with the School of Architecture, Princeton University

With contributions by Stan Allen, Michael Jakob, Kenneth Frampton, Reyner Banham, David Gissen u.a.

Design: Thumb, New York

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

480 pages, 430 illustrations

hardback

2011, 978-3-03778-223-1, English
Architectural Research Case Studies
CHF 425.00
Out of print

Stanley T. Allen

Stanley T. Allen is the Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University, and the owner and principal of SAA / Stan Allen Architect in New York.

Marc McQuade

Marc McQuade, AIA, is an architect with experience in the United States and Switzerland designing cultural, civic, residential, and commercial buildings. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. In 2010, McQuade joined Sir David Adjaye’s New York studio, overseeing the office with projects in North and South America and the Caribbean. Along with practicing architecture, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.